Traffic control for multimedia devices

[Cong Wang]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:53 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf at suug.ch> wrote:
> On 02/27/14 at 10:48am, Alban Crequy wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been working on an approach to improve bandwidth
>> management using ingress traffic control on multimedia devices when the
>> users are both watching streamed videos and downloading other contents.
>>
>> I wrote about it there:
>> http://alban-apinc.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/traffic-control-for-multimedia-devices.html
>
> Very nice blog post.

+1

>>
>> The implemented demo (license LGPL) partially uses libnl but still has
>> lots of ugly calls to /sbin/tc. My goal is to eventually uses libnl
>> completely.
>>
>> I am curious whether other projects use libnl for similar purposes.
>
> Cong has been working in this field a lot recently and any
> addition to libnl in this regard is highly welcome.

I don't use ifb since I only need to filter traffic on ingress, so
the ingress qdisc is enough for me.

It seems libnl still doesn't support ifb, but it is probably very
easy to add it. Good news is libnl has cbq qdisc support.

Thanks.